According to the records, Oswald and Jack Ruby met in a Florida airport as part of a group heading to Cuba to “cut sugar cane” before the assassination and were heard by an informant discussing “Big Bird”

Even top impartial academics see the significance of some of the clues being released.

Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, likened the files to “an unassembled million-piece puzzle”.

In a report to the New York Times, he said: “We are primarily looking for obscure clues and shiny objects. Here, the files do not disappoint.”

He pointed to a fresh document in which an FBI source revealed that the agency was spying on Mark Lane, a lawyer who represented Oswald’s mother Marguerite.

A journalist told Lane in 1964 that he believed that J.D. Tippit — a Dallas cop shot dead by Oswald shortly after Kennedy was killed — was himself the real killer.

This theory was backed up by another agency report in which an informant suggested that Officer Tippit met with Oswald in a bar owned by Jack Ruby — the man who shot dead Oswald as he was being moved to a jail.

Donald Trump releases nearly 3,000 classified records on the JFK assassination, but the US President keeps several hundred secret

President Trump said: “The American public expects — and deserves — its Government to provide as much access as possible to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records (records) so that the people may finally be fully informed about all aspects of this pivotal event.

“Therefore, I am ordering today that the veil finally be lifted. At the same time, executive departments and agencies (agencies) have proposed to me that certain information should continue to be redacted because of national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns.

“I have no choice — today — but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our Nation’s security.

“To further address these concerns, I am also ordering agencies to re-review each and every one of those redactions over the next 180 days.

“At the end of that period, I will order the public disclosure of any information that the agencies cannot demonstrate meets the statutory standard for continued postponement of disclosure under section 5(g) (2)(D) of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 U.S.C. 2107 note) (the “Act”).”

But politicians, theorists, analysts and experts are widely panning the redaction as potential evidence of a continued government cover-up.

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